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MySpace Buying Photobucket
No wonder MySpace blocked Photobucket. They were trying to lower the purchase price. MySpace is buying Photobucket for $250 million, down from the previous asking price of $300 million.
Damn. Just when Kickthebucket was getting all cool and Ajaxy and Flexy, their new bosses will be the ad-crazy n00b-breeding suits at Fox. Moral lesson: don’t do too much business in a walled garden. The gardeners will stab you in the back and turn you into fertilizer.
RIP Photobucket. After the ImageShack scandal, Flickr is set to take the lead in the photo-sharing race.
Yahoo! Photos to Shut Down in Favor of Fickr
I’m a huge Flickr fan, so I’m glad to see Yahoo cut the peanut butter and close down Yahoo! Photos in favor of Flickr.
Yahoo Photos is currently the largest photo sharing site on the Internet, with around 2 billion stored photos. Flickr, by comparison, has around 500 million photos. But Flickr is also growing much faster than Yahoo photos and coincidentally has just exceeded Yahoo! Photos in traffic, according to Comscore.
Best part: they’re not trapping user photos. How’s that for a show of confidence in Flickr?
Yahoo is not forcing transition to Flickr – instead, users are being given the option of choosing among a number of top photo sharing sites. If you are a current Yahoo! Photos user, you will be given the option to export all your photos into Flickr (a one-click process) or you will be able to export to a few other services such as Photobucket, Snapfish, Kodak Gallery or Shutterfly.
Good thing ImageShack isn’t on the list. Kudos to Yahoo for sharpening its focus in this area without trapping data. Just to show you what Flickr can do, above is a slideshow featuring photos from Anime Matsuri 2007, crossposted from Anime Mashups.
